Family independence of the peasantry of the non-chernozem village in the context of economic practices and legislative policy of the second half of XIX century

The article is devoted to a scantily explored problem of peasant family sections that took place in the non-chernozem village in the second half of the XIX century. The author analyzes the economic reality and controversial Russian pre-revolutionary legislation, which retained the tendency of the administrative regulation of the inner life and the economic freedom of the peasant family. The author comes to the conclusion that the coming industrial age, not the government directives and initiatives of nobles and officials, has determined the directions of transformation of one of the founding traditional institutions of the Russian peasant society.

peasantry, nonchernozem village, family sections, small-scale farming, legislation of the post-reform era